A local case of global learning: critical reflections on leadership education for international community development practitioners
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Abstract
The Coady International Institute works with development practitioners to enhance communities‟ knowledge, skills and capacity in the Global South. This is done through education programs, action research, and in-field work with specific partners. We bring to this study our interests and struggles with the concept of partnership, transformative learning and leadership for community-based action. Drawing from critical theories of learning in a globalized world and adult education‟s renewed call for social justice, we analyse the struggles of working in a setting that deals daily with the tensions of how knowledge is constructed collaboratively among participants and facilitators from diverse geographic and educational backgrounds. We consider how we and our participants bridge so called western and non-western concepts of learning. As equitable development requires intentional collaboration among diverse partners, we examine how a new course on Partnerships in Multistakeholder Environments mirrors our reflections on learning in a collaborative and complex environment. We also integrate observations from an existing research methods course and the library‟s participation in programming. Context The Coady International Institute is rooted in the Antigonish Movement, a social and economic justice movement in Eastern Canada originating with the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University (St.FX). The movement brought together two development models popular at the time, adult education and economic co-operation. Collective activities beginning with mass meetings and study clubs, through to various forms of co-operative organizing led people to identify the obstacles they faced, the resources they could build upon, and the strategies they could employ to confront injustice. The Institute was established in 1959 to respond to international demand for education programs on the movement‟s collective learning and organizing models at the same time as concepts of international development and human rights were emerging. Thus, the principles guiding the work of Coady integrated both the principles of our own movement, as well as those of the emerging Gandhian, Freirean, African humanist, feminist and ecological social
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.031 | 0.030 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.048 | 0.080 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.027 | 0.020 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.023 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.026 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".